Oh wow that’s great. I bet it looked pretty small in person
It sure did. They had it in the middle of a circular room, and they had painted the walls all around it with a landscape of raging seas, dimmed the lights a bit, and had the sound of roaring ocean waves playing (not too loud)
The effect was a good one...you could imagine it, and yeah...it was small.
It reminded me of a book I read that they made a movie out of called “The Finest Hours” where back in 1952, two Liberty ships converted to tankers both broke in half within 50 miles of each other in a Nor’easter off Chatham, MA. They took a rescue launch out and rescued 32 men off the sinking stern of the ship and got them safely back to Chatham.
32 men...pretty good haul.
I was in Wellfleet, MA a few years back after I had read the book, and heard the actual boat, restored to a pristine state, was tied up to a dock, and you could go on it, so off we went.
Damn. I went on and looked around...I could not believe in any way, shape, or form they got 32 men plus the three man crew onto this boat, navigated it through a vicious Nor’Easter with all of them aboard, and made it to shore. It was mind-boggling to see.
Damn.
Those men were studs.